Edwins Thatch

Edwins Thatch is a small house dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century. It is constructed of painted rubble and cob, topped with a wheat reed thatched roof. The house features brick chimneys over large external rubble stacks at the gable ends, and the roof slopes lower over a pantry outshut at the rear.

The layout consists of two rooms with a lobby entrance between them, leading to a dog-leg stair. Behind the stair, accessible from what is likely the kitchen on the left, is a later pantry outshut. To the left of the pantry is a shallower projection that may have served as a furze cupboard.

The exterior is two storeys high and nearly symmetrical, with a two-window front and an approximately central doorway set back within an old painted rubble outshut porch that has a thatched roof. The door is a 20th-century ledged design, and the windows are very small. The first-floor windows are positioned closer together and right under the eaves. There is a late 18th-century or 19th-century 12-pane, 2-light casement window with a centre-hung opening light on the right side of the first floor, while the other windows are later casements with glazing bars. The interior has not been inspected.